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Croney

(4,661 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2024, 09:01 AM Mar 8

You plan for years, and then there's no crawfish.

This May we're having a big 90th birthday party in Louisiana and it was supposed to be a crawfish boil with all the sides. Time to make a Plan B!

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/climate/louisiana-crawfish-disaster-us-climate/index.html

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration Wednesday for the state’s critical crawfish industry, as extreme weather disrupted this year’s harvest and triggered a shortage of the tiny crustaceans.

Louisiana is the country’s top producer of crawfish – a staple in Gulf Coast cuisine such as crawfish étouffée, gumbos and po-boys. The brick-red creatures have been harvested commercially in Louisiana since the 1800s, and the industry brings in more than $300 million for the state’s economy each year.

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